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The best classical music wake-up call

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Fri 5 Sep 2025 06:30
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Music Played

  • Michel Yost

    Clarinet Concerto no.6 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Susanne Heilig. Orchestra: Kurpf盲lzisches Kammerorchester. Conductor: Marek 艩tilec.
    • Yost: Clarinet Concertos - Vogel: Symphony No. 1 in D Major.
    • CPO.
    • 8.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Lullabye for Lucy

    Choir: 蜜芽传媒 Singers. Conductor: Simon Joly.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies - Choral Works.
    • Collins Digital.
    • 4.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance Op.11

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • J.S.Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos: Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 10.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo and Euridice)

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Claire Guimond. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Age of Elegance: Greatest Hits.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    The Seasons Op.67 (Summer - excerpts)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Impromptu no.3 in A flat major Op.34

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Faure - The Complete Music for Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Entr'acte No.3 in B flat major (Incidental Music to Rosamunde)

    Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Carousel Waltz (Carousel)

    Music Arranger: Edward Benson Powell. Music Arranger: Gus Levene. Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • The Best of The John Wilson Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sento la gioia (Amadigi di Gaula)

    Music Arranger: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.

  • Luciano Berio

    Ritirata notturna di Madrid

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • ONDINE.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Dvo艡谩k: Symphony No. 9, From the New world - Sibelius: Finlandia.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the winged messenger (The Planets, Op.32)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • The Planets.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 103.

  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur (Chaconne)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • ERATO.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in C major, Op 6 No 10

    Ensemble: The Brandenburg Consort. Director: Roy Goodman.
    • HYPERION.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 (Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    O Soave Fanciulla (La Boh猫me)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Singer: Kristine Opolais. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Sony.

  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major AV.132 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Strauss: Horn Concertos: Britten Sinfonia/Cleobury.
    • EMI.
    • 10.

  • Nigel Hess

    Thames Journey

    Orchestra: London Symphonic Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Nigel Hess.
    • East Coast Pictures - The Wind Band Music of Nigel Hess.
    • Fly.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Sep 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3